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Session Submission Type: Paper Session
This panel examines labor activism among informal and low-wage workers—groups who are often characterized as “unorganizable.” Addressing issues of race, gender & global comparisons, this panel brings together research on a diverse array of labor from India to the U.S., including illegal sex workers, informal mine workers, temporary warehouse workers, and immigrant day laborers (both men and women). This research examines both the opportunities and limits of resistance and organizing among these marginalized workers.
Street Work and the Organization of Informal Work - Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky, University of Washington
Working for God’s Chosen People: Gender, Race and Religion on a Brooklyn Corner - Erika Denisse Grajeda, University of Texas-Austin
Organizing Temporary and Immigrant Workers: Lessons from Change to Win’s Warehouse Workers United Campaign - Ellen R. Reese, University of California-Riverside; Jason Y. Struna, University of California-Riverside
Making Sex Work Labor: Sex Worker Unionization and Informal Labor Politics in India - Gowri Vijayakumar, University of California-Berkeley; Shubha Chacko, Aneka; Subadra Panchanadeswaran, Adelphi University
Informal Workers’ Mobilization in Central India: The Limits of Democratic Dissent? - Manjusha S. Nair, National University of Singapore